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1	->"''Some men are born great and others have greatness thrust upon them. And some men, while we might necessarily be "great", it's not as though we are terrible or anything; I mean, there are definitely worse things on Website/YouTube, right? I think we can agree at that much. And who asked you anyway? If you're so god-damn smart, why don't you go make your own videos, huh? Yeah, that's what I thought! My name is Bobby the Tongue, and [[SarcasmMode without exaggerating at all]]; I'm basically the Pelé of complaining about video games. Meaning, not only am I staggeringly productive, ([[ScheduleSlip when I'm not taking an unannounced break]]), I execute with such skill and elegancy that it will take your breath away.''"
2	-->--'''[=MrBtongue=]''', "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lwl1s86TQeE Introducing Me]]"
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4	''Tasteful, Understated Nerdrage'' is a series of what can best be described as a series of video essays detailing tropics relating to the video game industry with an educational intent and a twist of humor. Admitting upfront to draw a lot of inspiration from WebVideo/RedLetterMedia's ''Plinkett Reviews'', the videos are made by Bob "[=MrBtongue=]" Case and hosted on his [[https://www.youtube.com/user/MrBtongue YouTube channel]].
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6	Discussing tropics ranging the from current state of gaming journalism and {{MMORPG}}s, over the use of classic storytelling techniques in video games, to selected video games, the videos combines academic discussion with copious amounts of sardonical humor and SelfDeprecation to achieve TUN's mission-statement: "To change the world for the better through strategic complaining."
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8	Sometimes, [=MrBtongue=] also likes to do what he calls "reverse complaining", for that he uses the SpinOff series ''Creepy, Obsessive Nerdlove'' wherein he takes a more positive look at certain titles, both films and video games.
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10	For a while, his most frequent activity was contributing to the Creator/ShamusYoung[='s=] ''Twenty Sided'' blog, most notably with a lengthy dissection of everything wrong with ''Series/GameOfThrones'' a bit ahead of the curve on the rest of the Internet souring on the show and a lengthy retrospective about the ''Franchise/BaldursGate'' series of games and the ways in which the CRPG genre generally has changed. His content stopped abruptly with Young's death and his current status is unknown.
11	!!Works discussed:
12	* ''Franchise/BaldursGate'', leading up to but [[OrphanedSeries never quite reaching]] the new release of the third game.
13	* ''Film/BladeRunner''
14	* ''VideoGame/DarkSouls''
15	* ''VideoGame/DiabloIII''
16	* ''Film/DjangoUnchained''
17	* ''VideoGame/DragonAgeII''
18	** ''VideoGame/DragonAgeInquisition''
19	* ''Franchise/TheElderScrolls,'' specifically ''Morrowind'', ''Oblivion'' and ''Skyrim''
20	* ''VideoGame/{{Fallout 3}}''
21	* ''VideoGame/FalloutNewVegas''
22	* ''Series/GameOfThrones'' and how it compares to its source material, ''Literature/ASongOfIceAndFire''.
23	* ''VideoGame/LANoire''
24	* ''Franchise/MassEffect''
25	* ''VideoGame/PlanescapeTorment''
26	* ''TabletopGame/{{Shadowrun}}''
27	* ''Film/TinkerTailorSoldierSpy''
28	* ''VideoGame/TheWitcher'' and [[VideoGame/TheWitcher2AssassinsOfKings its sequel]]
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31	!!Tropes:
32	* AccentuateTheNegative: Parodied. He's so used to complaining that he can't conceive of what the opposite of complaining would be so he just calls it "reverse complaining."
33	* ArsonMurderAndJaywalking: His parody sad ending for VideoGame/MassEffect3 featured Liara getting mocked mercilessly for the rest of her life by Javik, a Salarian scientist dropping a test tube and accidentally unleashing the genophage again, and Ashley Williams changing her hair back to the way it was in the first game.
34	* BuffySpeak: Combined with SophisticatedAsHell, especially when he coins the terms "reverse complaining" and "talky and techy sci-fi".
35	* InstructionalDialogue: His ''Baldur's Gate'' series analysis is written as a Socratic dialogue between "Achilles," a young modern CRPG fan from the console era eager to revisit the classics, and "The Grognard," a bitter but vaguely hopeful old-fashioned CRPG fan disillusioned with modern trends in the genre. Unusually, it avoids RightWayWrongWayPair; both Achilles and the Grognard are generally allowed to make good points about the ways in which the genre and the way people think about it evolved from these beginnings and whether or not they were ultimately artistically successful or not.
36	* InsufferableGenius: PlayedForLaughs.
37	* ProlongedPrologue: Made almost into a RunningGag, as seen in "The Shandification of Fallout 3":
38	-->''"Part Three: Okay, we get it. You like'' Tristram Shandy. ''What does this have to do with'' Fallout?"
39	* SelfDeprecation: [=MrBtongue=] frequently lampshades his {{Schedule Slip}}s.
40	* SmallNameBigEgo: PlayedForLaughs. [=MrBtongue=] often make deliberately overly grandiose claims about his own importance for the video game industry, such as styling himself a major investor in ''VideoGame/ShadowrunReturns'' and ''VideoGame/TormentTidesOfNumenera'' because he backed their Website/{{Kickstarter}}s.
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42	!!Tropes discussed:
43	* {{Cyberpunk}}: In "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XXVO1HCNQ8M Cyberpunk is back]]".
44	* TragicHero: Describes Mordin as this in his "Literature vs. Genre" video. He also goes on to describe Wrex as an elegiac hero.
45	%%* WillingSuspensionOfDisbelief
46	* WorldBuilding: The entire ''point'' of [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wvwlt4FqmS0 "The Shandification of Fallout."]]
47	-->I'll demonstrate what I mean by asking an obnoxious and repetitive question, a question I often ask when exploring fictional worlds. That question is this; "What do they eat?"

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